William Crary Brownell 



implies. His alertness insensibly 

 passed over into the realm of the 

 imagination and blended beautifully 

 with this rarest of faculties. His 

 imagination was, as Mr. Cary has 

 discriminatingly pointed out, " his 

 dominant, at moments his dominat- 

 ing quality." At moments assuredly 

 it held him quite enthralled within 

 an almost hypnotic control, and he 

 followed its beckoning with the con- 

 fident eagerness of ecstasy. But for 

 the most part he was on terms of 

 complete understanding with it and 

 checked and tested its suggestions 

 with the sagacity that gave its pro- 

 nounced scientific turn to his mind. 

 It was largely a matter of the material 

 on which his imagination — the con- 

 stant factor in his equation — worked. 

 At work it always was. And, ex- 

 ercised on serious and important 

 substance, it reached commanding 

 heights. It led him to very solid 



